IP: the lights go out on history "Lights out in the Mill"

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

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MILPND::CROWLEY "Dave Crowley"                       18 lines  28-SEP-1995
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    I guess this is really it.  The last department is moving out of
    the Mill as of tomorrow, Sept 29.  Only about 30 employees are
    left now, and tomorrow there will be none.  There are cobwebs
    growing in the unoccupied floors, and the spiders will soon have
    the place to themselves.


    I've been here most of my 17 years with DEC, the last 8
    continuously.  I'm going to miss the three-dimensional maze.  The
    cacaphony of dollies on the uneven wooden floors.  The river, the
    fish feeding under the bridge.  The clocktower, the bell, the
    green and red backlighting at Christmas.  Windows that open, birds
    flying into conference rooms, bubble wrap around the sills to keep
    out the winter.  Plywood partitions, the undulations of building
    3, pencils rolling to one side of a listing desk.  Having a sub
    shop that's closer than the cafeteria.  An environment that turns
    pretension into a charade.


    See you on the widening gyre...